Commercial · Sans serif · Darden Studio
Halyard
Halyard is a licensed font from Darden Studio: $289, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Halyard is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Joshua Darden; Text and Micro with Eben Sorkin and Lucas Sharp
- Released
- 2017
- Styles
- 54
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $289 (per size family (Halyard Text, Display or Micro); price read from the page’s embedded product data) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Grotesque family in Display, Text and Micro sizes, each eight weights with italics, built from elements of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century designs by Schelter+Giesecke, Miller and Richard, and Benton.
Free alternatives to Halyard
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Halyard is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Public Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Public Sans.
same classification
A neutral American grotesque with a wide weight range.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Franklin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Franklin.
same classification
Franklin Gothic revival from the same Benton lineage that Halyard cites.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Inter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inter.
commonly substituted
Screen grotesque with open forms and optical-size-like variants.
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